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      • S&S Alliance

        Step & Step Alliance is a children’s book publisher under the Beijing Huirui Times Culture Group (established in January 2008), supporting children’s comprehensive development. Step & Step Alliance is positioned in the domestic high-end children’s book market and develops and produces high-quality board books and novelty books, sound books, puzzle books and games, non-fiction books, interactive books, pop-up books, picture books meant for international coproductions through a smart, young and efficient international sales Team. Love to play, love to read and following step by step childhood and development! An open door to knowledge connecting the world!

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      • All Things Women

        Find your focus and strengths in times of crisis.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2017

        Conquering nature in Spain and its empire, 1750–1850

        by Helen Cowie, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

        This book examines the study of natural history in the Spanish empire in the years 1750-1850. During this period, Spain made strenuous efforts to survey, inventory and exploit the natural productions of her overseas possessions, orchestrating a serries of scientific expeditions and cultivating and displaying American fauna and flora in metropolitan gardens and museums. This book assesses the cultural significance of natural history, emphasising the figurative and utilitarian value with which eighteenth-century Spaniards invested natural objects, from globetrotting elephants to three-legged chickens. It considers how the creation, legitimisation and dissemination of scientific knowledge reflected broader questions of imperial power and national identity. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Spanish and Latin American History, the History of Science and Imperial Culture

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        Health & Personal Development
        May 2016

        How to Deal with Anxiety and Panic

        by Michael Rufer, Heike Alsleben, Angela Weiss

        Are you or a loved one suffering from anxiety and panic and you are wondering what you can do? To whom you can turn? What the options for treatment are? And how relatives can help? This self-help book gives affected people and their relatives: • clear and comprehensive information based on up-to-date research findings • concrete self-help strategies and exercises with worksheets • descriptions of recognized treatment methods • instructions on coping with stress and using relaxation techniques • detailed answers to frequently asked questions • a helpful list of useful contacts and websites • an idea of how mindfulness can be incorporated. The authors have first-hand knowledge of these problems from their extensive experience of counseling and treating people with anxiety disorders and their relatives. This book summarizes their knowledge in clear and comprehensible form. It is ideal both for self-help and to complement ongoing treatment. Target Group: affected people and their relatives and friends; psychologists, therapists, doctors, counseling centers.

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        Medicine

        How to Deal With Cutting in Adolescents

        A Guide for Families, Educators, and Adolescents Who Self-harm

        by Dr. Eduardo Aratangy

        This guide provides patients with self-harming behavior as well as their families with information on the possible causes, progression, and treatment options.   The content of this book is clearly structures and outlines different strategies to deal with cutting. Additionally, an informative overview of the complexity of the disorder, written for non-professionals, helps readers gain a better insight into the different characteristics.   Target Group: teens exhibiting self-harming behavior, relatives and laypersons interested in the subject, clinical psychologists, mental health professionals

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        Geography & the Environment
        November 2013

        1 Angel Square

        The Co-operative Group's new head office

        by Len Grant

        This book charts the building of 1 Angel Square, the remarkable new head office for The Co-operative Group in Manchester's new NOMA district. Combining text and photographs to illustrate the building from commissioning to completion, Len Grant has interviewed the whole project team - clients, architects, engineers, project managers and builders - and has had unreserved access to document the creation of this already award-winning structure. The design of 1 Angel Square by the architects 3DReid, is currently the UK's highest BREEAM (Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method) rated office building to date, and it is set to be one of the most sustainable buildings in Europe. 1 Angel Square, the book, is an intimate record of this fascinating building. Some of the impressive facts include: 3,157 internal and external window panels make up the façade; there are 10,500 data and power outlets; it sits on 539 foundation piles, with an average depth of 18 metres below ground; and there are approximately 22km of power cables. This book will be required reading for students of architecture and construction, sustainability studies and urban planning, and for those with an interest in the history of one of the world's great businesses. ;

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        August 1998

        Peter Tschaikowsky

        Eine Biographie

        by Edward Garden, Konrad Küster

        "Peter Tschaikowsky ist der berühmteste Komponist des alten Rußlands. Mit einer detaillierten Werkanalyse verknüpft Garden die farbige Schilderung des unruhigen Musikerlebens; präzise aufgehellt werden auch die Hintergründe von Tschaikowskys erzwungenem Selbstmord."

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        Medicine
        May 2013

        Therapeutic landscapes

        A history of English hospital gardens since 1800

        by Clare Hickman

        Therapeutic landscapes uniquely brings together historical and contemporary debates on the use of the garden as a therapeutic space. Hickman narrates the story of the landscapes associated with psychiatric, general and specialist medical institutions and asks what did they look like, how were they used and how did this relate to medical concepts? It traces the history of these gardens from the grottos, Chinese galleries and summer houses of elite nineteenth-century lunatic asylums, through Florence Nightingale's championing of the Victorian pavilion hospital design with its courtyard gardens, and the open-air institutions of the Edwardian period with their revolving chalets. It concludes with a discussion of new hospital gardens being created by designers such as Dan Pearson in the twenty-first century. This book will be essential reading for those interested in the histories of place, space and material culture, and in particular medical historians, garden historians and historical geographers. ;

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        May 2018

        Dragon Child Bundle (Bände 1-3)

        by Omphalius, Ruth

        ***Alle drei Bände der magischen Drachenfantasy im Bundle*** Entfache das Feuer in dir! Sophie hat mit Übergewicht zu kämpfen, wird in der Schule gemobbt und kann sich nicht einmal gegen ihren kleinen Bruder durchsetzen. Am liebsten zieht sie sich mit einem guten Buch von der Welt zurück und hofft, im besten Fall einfach übersehen zu werden. Doch all das ändert sich schlagartig, als sich ihre unterdrückte Wut eines Tages in einem markerschütternden Schrei entlädt, Feuer und Verwüstung um sich greifen und Sophie in bizarre Träume abgleitet: hoch in der Luft schwebend über dem Haus ihrer Eltern oder auf der Flucht vor schaurigen Vogelwesen. Selbst dem coolsten Mädchen der Klasse, Melissa, fallen die Veränderungen auf und sie beginnt Sophie auszuspionieren. Weder Melissa noch Sophie ahnen jedoch, wie groß und lebensbedrohlich das Geheimnis, dem sie auf der Spur sind, tatsächlich ist. Dieses Bundle enthält alle drei Teile der fantastisch-magischen Dragon Child Serie: - Dragon Child 1: Das Erwachen - Dragon Child 2: Die Rebellion - Dragon Child 3: Die Allianz

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        Gardening for Well-being

        How Gardening Makes You Happy and Satisfied

        by Andreas Niepel

        Younger and younger people and families have gone in search of their own garden in recent years. This trend intensified further as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. While the original purpose of gardening was self-­sufficiency, the idea of promoting health has recently come to the fore. Horticultural therapist Andreas Niepel reaches out to new, young gardeners with this book. In a vivid and relaxed way, he describes how gardening promotes positive emotions of pleasure, vitality, improved self-esteem, social integration, closeness to nature, well-­being, a sense of security and control as well as relaxation.

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        March 2018

        Eden

        Thriller

        by Candice Fox, Thomas Wörtche, Anke Caroline Burger

        Heinrich Archer, genannt Hades, das kriminelle Mastermind von Sydney, wird bedroht. Er ›bittet‹ Detective Frank Bennett, den Kollegen seiner Tochter Eden, um diskrete Hilfe, denn die Spuren könnten tief in das faszinierende, gewaltsatte Vorleben von Hades führen.Gleichzeitig hat Eden, Top-Detective bei der Mordkommission mit dem seltenen Talent, Verbrecher aufzuspüren und zur Strecke zu bringen, einen extrem schwierigen Auftrag: Drei Mädchen sind verschwunden, und die Spur führt sie zu einer verlassenen Farm, auf der sich ein Serienkiller rumtreibt. Sie begibt sich dort undercover in eine Kommune, ein rabenschwarzes, gefährliches Paralleluniversum mit Mördern und Vergewaltigern. Sie muss all ihre erstaunlichen Fähigkeiten einsetzen, um zu überleben. Zudem ist ihre Beziehung zu ihrem Partner Bennett kompliziert, beide sind traumatisiert, und dass Bennett gerade auf Alkohol und Drogen ist, macht die Sache nicht einfacher. Aber die beiden sind auf Gedeih und Verderb aufeinander angewiesen. Eden ist ein düsterer, vielschichtiger Roman voller Geheimnisse. Wild, hart und ganz und gar ungewöhnlich.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2025

        Pink-pilled

        Women and the far right

        by Lois Shearing

        A daring investigation that explores how women are targeted and recruited by the far right. As the far right has gained popularity and acceptance around the world, its ranks have swelled with an unlikely category of members: women. Women play significant roles in far-right movements, acting as propagandists, prizes to be won and mother-warriors of the nation. But up to now their activities have been largely overlooked. In Pink-pilled, Lois Shearing provides a cutting-edge account of how the far right has used the internet to recruit women, while shedding light on what life is like for women within these movements, including their experiences of misogyny and violence. Understanding how and why women join movements that explicitly aim to restrict their autonomy is essential if we want to fight back. Pink-pilled offers key insights for countering women's radicalisation and building communities resistant to far-right thought.

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        June 2019

        Die Olchis im Zoo

        Lesestarter. 3. Lesestufe

        by Erhard Dietl, Erhard Dietl

        Krötiger Olchi-Spaß im Zoo. "Schlabber-Kröten-Furz! Ihr habt ja wohl gar keine Ahnung", raunzt der Olchi-Opa. Denn die Olchi-Kinder wissen nicht einmal, was ein Elefant ist. Das kann auch ein Olchi nicht durchgehen lassen und deshalb machen Olchi-Oma und Olchi-Opa mit den Olchi-Kindern einen Ausflug in den Zoo. Und das kann ja nur im Chaos enden. Die Lesestarter von Oetinger motivieren auch leseschwache Kinder zum Lesen. Wie? Mit bekannten Autoren, starken Charakteren und populären Themen, die Kinder im Alter von fünf bis zehn Jahren begeistern. Und mit vielen Bildern, Spielen und Leserätseln. So einfach ist Lesenlernen mit den Olchis: Liebenswerte Figuren, einfache Texte, und beliebte Themen motivieren und machen Spaß.

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        January 2008

        Die Olchis im Zoo

        Hörspiel

        by Erhard Dietl, Rainer Schmitt, Stephanie Kirchberger, Dagmar Dreke, Eva Michaelis, Robert Missler, Peter Kirchberger, Leon Seibel, Erhard Dietl, Dieter Faber, CSC creative sound conception, Bastian Hertel, CSC creative sound conception, Frank Gustavus, Christiane Krah, Cornelia Weber, Erhard Dietl

        Schleime-Schlamm-und-Käsefuß! Olchi-Chaos im Tierpark Olchi-Opa ist entsetzt: Seine Enkel wissen nicht, was ein Elefant ist! Um das zu ändern, machen er und Olchi-Oma mit den Olchi-Kindern einen Ausflug in den Zoo. Wer staunt hier wohl am meisten - die Tiere, die anderen Besucher oder die Olchis? Hörspiel mit den frechen Olchi-Stimmen.

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        February 2022

        Vincent und das Geisterlama

        by Sonja Kaiblinger, Christian Rudolf, Anja Hasse, Fréderic Bertrand

        In "Vincent und das Geisterlama" entführt Sonja Kaiblinger ihre jungen Zuhörer in eine abenteuerliche Welt, in der Vincent, eine Fledermaus mit einem großen Herzen, sich nach einer Superkraft sehnt, um endlich mit seinen Freunden, dem witzigen Werschweinchen Fritzi und der energiegeladenen Polly, mithalten zu können. Sein Wunsch führt das Trio in den nächtlichen Zoo, in der Hoffnung, andere Halb-Geistertiere zu treffen, die Vincent den Weg zu seiner eigenen Besonderheit weisen könnten. Was als aufregende Suche beginnt, verwandelt sich schnell in ein gruseliges Abenteuer voller überraschender Wendungen und unerwarteter Begegnungen. Diese Geschichte ist nicht nur ein Spaß für junge Grusel-Fans, sondern lehrt auch wichtige Lektionen über Freundschaft, Mut und das Akzeptieren der eigenen Identität. Spannendes Hörerlebnis: Eingebettet in die beliebte „Scary Harry“-Welt, bietet dieses Hörbuch eine packende Geschichte, die Kinder in den Bann zieht. Beliebte Charaktere und neue Abenteuer: Begleite Vincent, Polly und Fritzi auf ihrer neuesten Mission, die mit Humor und Spannung junge Zuhörer fesselt. Wertvolle Moral: Neben Unterhaltung vermittelt das Hörbuch wichtige Botschaften über Freundschaft, Selbstakzeptanz und den Mut, eigene Ängste zu überwinden. Fantasiereiche Inszenierung: Mit lebendigen Beschreibungen und sympathischen Charakteren tauchen die Zuhörer tief in die Geschichte ein und erleben ein unvergessliches Abenteuer. Ideal für junge Grusel-Fans: Das Hörbuch verbindet Grusel-Elemente mit Humor und ist somit perfekt für Kinder, die spannende Geschichten mit einer Prise Grusel lieben. Hochwertige Produktion: Mit professioneller Vertonung und atmosphärischer Hintergrundmusik wird "Vincent und das Geisterlama" zu einem akustischen Highlight für Kinder.

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        The Arts
        November 2018

        Art as worldmaking

        Critical essays on realism and naturalism

        by Malcolm Baker, Andrew Hemingway, Andrew Hemingway, Briony Fer, Joshua Shannon, Adrian Rifkin, Malcolm Baker, Martina Droth, Caroline Arscott, Anne Wagner, Martin Powers, Neil McWilliam, Celeste Brusati, T.J. Clark, Rebecca Zurier, Steve Edwards, Tamar Garb, Lisa Tickner, Alistair Rider, Thomas Crow, Gail Day

        Art as worldmaking is a response to Alex Potts's provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading scholars test Potts's recasting of realism through examinations of art produced in different media and periods, ranging from eighth-century Chinese garden aesthetics to video work by the contemporary Russian collective Radek Community. While the book does not neglect avatars of pictorial realism such as Menzel and Eakins, or the question of nineteenth-century realism's historical antecedents, it is contemporary in orientation in that many contributors are particularly concerned with the questions that sculpture, photography and non-traditional media pose for realism as an aesthetic norm. It will be essential reading for students of art history concerned with art's truth value or more broadly with conceptual problems of representation and the intersections of art and politics.

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        Colonialism & imperialism
        July 2003

        Imperial cities

        Landscape, display and identity

        by Edited by Felix Driver and David Gilbert

        Imperial cities explores the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. Examines large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in Rome. Focuses on imperial display throughout the city, from spectacular exhibitions and ceremonies, to more private displays of empire in suburban gardens. Cconsiders the changing cultural and political identities in the imperial city, looking particularly at nationalism, masculinity and anti-imperialism.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Imperial cities

        Landscape, display and identity

        by Felix Driver, David Gilbert

        Imperial cities explores the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. Examines large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in Rome. Focuses on imperial display throughout the city, from spectacular exhibitions and ceremonies, to more private displays of empire in suburban gardens. Cconsiders the changing cultural and political identities in the imperial city, looking particularly at nationalism, masculinity and anti-imperialism.

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        May 1995

        Allocation of Law Enforcement Authority in the International System.

        Proceedings of an International Symposium of the Kiel Institute of International Law March 23 to 25, 1994.

        by Herausgegeben von Delbrück, Jost; Mitherausgeber Heinz, Ursula E.

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